You're right, this is slashdot... not really an appropriate forum for talking about women in general. We can tell you all about assembly and proper computer security and the history of Windows, but women?
Might as well just hit on that female night elf instead. World of Warcraft is a better way to get chicks, so long as you got the gold and the purpz to impress the ladies.
Back when I played WoW, we had one female member that kept dating and then dumping the dudes that got legendary items (like the Hand of Ragnaros).
VISEN AND GILLIAM SITTING IN A TREE, C-Y-B-E-R-I-N-G FIRST COMES PURPZ THEN COMES LEGENDARIES THEN COMES QUESTING TOGETHER AT NESINGWARY'S
You have to wonder what Nintendo is doing. Are they concentrating more on the Japanese market or something? Why hasn't a new, REAL proper continuation of the Star Fox series been made, and not the spinoff crap they've churned out?
Conker, Goldeneye, etc type games are long gone since Rareware was sold to Microsoft, and that may have been a good decision since Rare's no longer as big a name in the gaming industry (that's really depressing). Final Fantasy, etc, is probably never going to make a triumphant return to a Nintendo console, either, at least not the main series. We won't be seeing anything like FFVI again, I think:(
The Virtual Boy was a flop of such a magnitude that nobody in the entire video game industry will [i]ever[/i] make that kind of mistake again.
For what it's worth, Nintendo is the biggest innovator in terms of how gamers interface with the console and games, but they never fully flesh it out or at least get third parties to hop on board, which is really sad. The Nintendo DS's touch screen, for example, is usually misused in such a fashion that its usage in games always feels "tacked-on" and unnecessary and often detrimental to a game. Few games on the DS are as innovate as Kirby's Paintbrush. I do not mean to slight the DS though, it's a very excellent platform with some games that bring me back into the SNES golden years (with some N64 elements thrown in). The double-screen design also makes games a lot more enjoyable, too--no need to constantly pause the game to check the map in (for example) a castlevania game when you can just look at the other screen to see where you're at.
The Wii is an even better example. Such wasted potential with the wiimote. Most of the crap on the Wii is shovelware that uses the wiimote's features for half-hearted party games that do not even seem to respond all that properly to the wiimote, at least in my experience.
Nintendo's innovation is also often offset by themselves, too. Friend codes, anyone? Nintendo doesn't appreciate online gaming enough and is still too stuck on maintaining its "Disney clean" image.
It is a basic fact of psychology that pairing something with a punishment (assuming that something isn't desirable enough to override the punishment's effect) will likely condition the subject to associate that something with punishment or otherwise dislike it. It's basic classical conditioning--do something wrong, get an electrical shock, the subject is less likely to repeat that behavior. Naturally, though, context may modify the effect of the conditioning...
Make kids sit around in boredom (they'd much rather be somewhere else) against their will piping classical music at them will possibly just give them to associate classical music with... uh, negative things.
See, the quiet parts are supposed to be quiet. You have to set the volume so that the quiet parts can be heard, but not be loud, then your ears won't hurt when the loud part comes. The dynamic range of human hearing is 120dB, the theoretical CD dynamic range is 96dB, tape and records have lower dynamic range and CDs usually are recorded with lower dynamic range too, so it shouldn't hurt your ears.
The problem here is that many people nowadays listen to classical music in settings where it's not completely quiet (a car, for example) where ambient noise can drown out some of the quieter parts. Combine that with the fact that recording isn't completely perfect and you get people turning up the volume to even hear it and then being blasted with sharp horns wailing in misery over their ruptured eardrums.
No, no, no, the person I'm responding to seems to dislike scalping, unbridled capitalism, then talking about how they are a "socialist/libertarian." If they want to outlaw scalping... well, what kind of libertarian is that?
I'm right with you on scalping. The buying-tickets-en masse scalping is really shitty but tickets shouldn't be treated differently from any other good! I always complain about scalping laws.
If scalping is a problem, think of an alternative to tickets.
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200GB ought to be enough for anybody.
Hard drives and very powerful magnets will still be the #1 choice for child pornographers.
Yeah, 2D plays quite differently from 3D. And I too really miss games like FFVI... *sob*
I wasn't a big fan of Mario is Missing, myself...
You're right, this is slashdot... not really an appropriate forum for talking about women in general. We can tell you all about assembly and proper computer security and the history of Windows, but women?
Body's still warm, though.
You could just frag her IRL and then take off all her clothing in one go.
I'd imagine you get what you pay for. The ones on Craigslist might be even more familiar with a joystick.
No, actually, I'm quite proud of myself for not thinking about this. At all.
Might as well just hit on that female night elf instead. World of Warcraft is a better way to get chicks, so long as you got the gold and the purpz to impress the ladies.
Back when I played WoW, we had one female member that kept dating and then dumping the dudes that got legendary items (like the Hand of Ragnaros).
VISEN AND GILLIAM SITTING IN A TREE,
C-Y-B-E-R-I-N-G
FIRST COMES PURPZ
THEN COMES LEGENDARIES
THEN COMES QUESTING TOGETHER AT NESINGWARY'S
Not so sure. The Virtual Bay was the gaming industry's Holocaust, if it wasn't ET for the Atari.
You neglect its biggest defect of all: the headaches it gave players. How THAT got past QA...
Couldn't agree more with you...!
You have to wonder what Nintendo is doing. Are they concentrating more on the Japanese market or something? Why hasn't a new, REAL proper continuation of the Star Fox series been made, and not the spinoff crap they've churned out?
Conker, Goldeneye, etc type games are long gone since Rareware was sold to Microsoft, and that may have been a good decision since Rare's no longer as big a name in the gaming industry (that's really depressing). Final Fantasy, etc, is probably never going to make a triumphant return to a Nintendo console, either, at least not the main series. We won't be seeing anything like FFVI again, I think :(
The Virtual Boy was a flop of such a magnitude that nobody in the entire video game industry will [i]ever[/i] make that kind of mistake again.
For what it's worth, Nintendo is the biggest innovator in terms of how gamers interface with the console and games, but they never fully flesh it out or at least get third parties to hop on board, which is really sad. The Nintendo DS's touch screen, for example, is usually misused in such a fashion that its usage in games always feels "tacked-on" and unnecessary and often detrimental to a game. Few games on the DS are as innovate as Kirby's Paintbrush. I do not mean to slight the DS though, it's a very excellent platform with some games that bring me back into the SNES golden years (with some N64 elements thrown in). The double-screen design also makes games a lot more enjoyable, too--no need to constantly pause the game to check the map in (for example) a castlevania game when you can just look at the other screen to see where you're at.
The Wii is an even better example. Such wasted potential with the wiimote. Most of the crap on the Wii is shovelware that uses the wiimote's features for half-hearted party games that do not even seem to respond all that properly to the wiimote, at least in my experience.
Nintendo's innovation is also often offset by themselves, too. Friend codes, anyone? Nintendo doesn't appreciate online gaming enough and is still too stuck on maintaining its "Disney clean" image.
Why is it illegal to look at child porn and not Jeffery Dahmer's disgusting crime scene photos?
How well does that argument tend to work for bittorrent sites?
I don't have to be a statistician to know that the above post is 97% bullshit.
Well, it depends whether or not Disney IP would near coming into public domain.
It is a basic fact of psychology that pairing something with a punishment (assuming that something isn't desirable enough to override the punishment's effect) will likely condition the subject to associate that something with punishment or otherwise dislike it. It's basic classical conditioning--do something wrong, get an electrical shock, the subject is less likely to repeat that behavior. Naturally, though, context may modify the effect of the conditioning...
Make kids sit around in boredom (they'd much rather be somewhere else) against their will piping classical music at them will possibly just give them to associate classical music with... uh, negative things.
The problem here is that many people nowadays listen to classical music in settings where it's not completely quiet (a car, for example) where ambient noise can drown out some of the quieter parts. Combine that with the fact that recording isn't completely perfect and you get people turning up the volume to even hear it and then being blasted with sharp horns wailing in misery over their ruptured eardrums.
I agree. I use Windows at home and KDE on my laptop, and I have to say I enjoy using KDE much more than Windows.
When it comes to security, it doesn't really matter--people's data, money, and potentially livelihoods may be at stake.
The problem is, they do this because of copyright law, not because they want to.
No, no, no, the person I'm responding to seems to dislike scalping, unbridled capitalism, then talking about how they are a "socialist/libertarian." If they want to outlaw scalping... well, what kind of libertarian is that?
I'm right with you on scalping. The buying-tickets-en masse scalping is really shitty but tickets shouldn't be treated differently from any other good! I always complain about scalping laws.
If scalping is a problem, think of an alternative to tickets.
OK, Mr. "libertarian," just who you do you propose stops this scalping? The government?